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Sunday, January 27, 2008

Where are you Darl?

—srikanth @ 10:25

This company claimed tons of things. When asked to show proof, this was the closest they came to showing it

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But, as every sane person expected, it couldn’t stand up to closer examination, and even these proofs turned out to be false.

Which company? What claim of theirs am I referring to here?

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udupendra, gammafunction, madhur, BiGFooT, Biki, Dibyo, duriel, Ganesh Prasad, rajeshvj, prasanth, bs, shashank, shenoyvarun86, Prasad, yaksha and jayanth

Show Answer

SCO claimed (repeatedly) that the Linux kernel used “lots” of code that belonged to them, since they claimed to “own” UNIX. They had, in fact, gone to great depths to try and discredit the Linux kernel, including sending threatening letters to many enterprise linux users.